<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">Kevin, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">Yes, this seems to be an African Collared-Dove. I have a diagram of the two tail patterns from an old NA Birds article in my blogpost here: <a href="https://thecottonwoodpost.net/2018/11/01/why-are-so-many-eurasian-collared-doves-leucistic/">https://thecottonwoodpost.net/2018/11/01/why-are-so-many-eurasian-collared-doves-leucistic/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">I'm not sure it would be confirmed, as they are considered escapees and not officially counted anyway (hence the orange asterisk that eBird now puts on them). </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">By the way, your location name on eBird got mixed up, but I believe the lat-long is still accurate-- a park in Yakima. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">good birding, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:44 PM Kevin Lucas <<a href="mailto:vikingcove@gmail.com">vikingcove@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Today I heard a strange dove call, tried to record it, then went around our house to see a Collared-Dove with white outer webs to its outermost tail feathers -- a distinguishing field mark for African Collared-Dove. I'd seen a similar bird or the same bird on January 1st. Today I was able to get my camera and take a couple of strongly backlit photos showing the outer webs that I attached to my checklist. My checklist from January 1st had no photos, and I'd not entered it with the "(Domestic type or Ringed Turtle-Dove)" qualifier. That sighting report hasn't yet been "confirmed". <br><br>Here are links to my checklists:<br><br><a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S126519290" target="_blank">https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S126519290</a><br><a href="https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S125400999" target="_blank">https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S125400999</a><br><br>I found in The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of North America good illustrations of the outer tail feathers' outer webs for both Eurasian and African Collared-Doves. In the Sibley app I used the over-under species comparison to see that distinction easily.<br><br>Gary Bletsch was the one to answer my previous Tweeters request for help with identifying it, and he did so quite nicely and thoroughly with a broad perspective. Thanks Gary.<br><br>I found a confirmed sighting of an African Collared-Dove on the eBird Range map with photos that show the black in the outer web of a Eurasian Collared-Dove, and find other confirmed checklists that make no mention of the white outer web and the white/light undertail coverts that seem to be needed to accurately confirm the species. Perhaps those field marks aren't necessary, or maybe I'm misunderstanding them. I welcome identification help.<br><br>Good Birding,<br><a href="https://www.aba.org/aba-code-of-birding-ethics/" target="_blank">https://www.aba.org/aba-code-of-birding-ethics/</a><br>Kevin Lucas<br>Yakima County, Washington<br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font size="6"><span style="color:rgb(95,99,104);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">Qui tacet consentire</span><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"> videtur</span></font></b></div></div></div></div></div>
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